Ahead of assembly elections, Congress government in Puducherry slips into minority India Updated: Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 17:21 [IST] Puducherry, Feb 16: It looks like trouble has nowhere to go apart from Congress as a party MLA tendered his resignation ahead of the Assembly elections in the Union territory. On Tuesday, Congress MLA A John Kumar resigned from the party, citing "dissatisfaction with the Congress government" in the Union territory. Kumar, who was the MLA of Kamaraj Nagar constituency, is the fourth Congress lawmaker to quit the party ahead of Gandhi's scheduled visit to Puducherry where the Assembly election is due in the next few months.